Over dinner, he outlined the notion of spending "a million dollars" to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. He also sits on a board that advises the Department of Defense. Michael, who Kalanick described as "one of the top deal guys in the Valley" when he joined the company, is a charismatic and well-regarded figure who came to Uber from Klout. The dinner was hosted by Ian Osborne, a former adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron and consultant to the company.Īt the dinner, Uber CEO and founder Travis Kalanick, boyish with tousled graying hair and a sweater, made the case that he has been miscast as an ideologue and as insensitive to driver and rider complaints, while in fact he has largely had his head down building a transformative company that has beat his own and others' wildest expectations.Ī BuzzFeed editor was invited to the dinner by the journalist Michael Wolff, who later said that he had failed to communicate that the gathering would be off the record neither Kalanick, his communications director, nor any other Uber official suggested to BuzzFeed News that the event was off the record. Michael, who has been at Uber for more than a year as its senior vice president of business, floated the idea at a dinner Friday at Manhattan's Waverly Inn attended by an influential New York crowd including actor Ed Norton and publisher Arianna Huffington. His remarks came as Uber seeks to improve its relationship with the media and the image of its management team, who have been cast as insensitive and hyper-aggressive even as the company's business and cultural reach have boomed. In a statement through Uber Monday evening, he said he regretted them and that they didn't reflect his or the company's views. The executive, Emil Michael, made the comments in a conversation he later said he believed was off the record.
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